City Must Learn And Respond

Bolton Wanderers, you are next. City have been comprehensively destroyed by Chelski and have 4 days to prepare a response...

Correct me if I am wrong Blues, but I can't recall us being on the wrong end of a six niller since the dark days of the Alan Ball era at Liverpool in a week when we shipped 10 goals against the Mickey's without reply.

We could spend all night dissecting the whys and wherefores of our non performance against a side created on a different planet. In my book, the loss of Emile Mpenza's roughing up of their defence was a body blow to our side. City were totally unable to mix it or up our game and were crushed by a weight of expectation and Chelski's brilliance.

This always was going to be the acid test for a management team and a side who have performed above and beyond any of our hopes so far this season. The squad will return to Manchester tonight absolutely shell shocked.

Svennis's assessment of our pisspoor defence and inability to compete were spot on. We were over run in midfield and again, a top drawer ball winner has to be considered by Frank and Sven in January alongside a proven finisher if we are to qualify for Europe. But that's two months off and we must respond to this roasting sharpish and I have every faith in SGE that we will.

The bedrock for a terrific side remains. We have to rediscover the backbone we showed against the rags in the Derby and learn from this humiliation to give the fans a lift and get the season back on track.

Maybe now all talk of a top four finish can be dismissed and the side can get back to playing under a good deal of lowered expectation.

City have worked hard to reach our current position, but will have to work a damn sight harder than they did today to maintain it.

The next three fixtures at Bolton, home to Sunderland and away at Portsmouth give this young City side a chance to get their heads up and get our season back on track.

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i do not think city should be demoralized...you guys still look a threat on the counter...just lacked a good striker and yeah didi hamman..he cannot play 30 games a season at his age..same as makelele.and what is wrong bianchi..i thought he was your main man.

Well, if a couple of shots had gone in, most notably Elano's howitzer or Ireland's missed opportunity, then then the confidence our young side needs would have been lifted. But they could not match Chelsea's work rate. It's a shame as most football fan's hopes of a challenge to the big four this season look ill founded.

work rate..something you guys showed plenty of against man utd..it just a matter of motivation....but got one advice..micah richards...you lot ruining him at center back..he is such a good footballer..play him rb..or maybe even midfield...don't waste him at cb as his true talent is with the ball at his feet...buy a quality cb during jan(my choice meite at bolton..good strong disciplined player).

This has been a big wake up call to the new players of what the Premiership is all about. Next Wednesday will be a good chance to get the wheels back on track and show what they are made of before putting in a big performance against the 'Black Cats' next weekend

Don't know if Mpenza was ill, but he does go back and defend. A good point about Richards from Essientric, Corluka was orginially bought for centre back, perhaps a swap. Not the end of the world though, perhaps good win come from this game. Still third, still in fron of Chelsea and Liverpool.

I hope the confidence in the City camp is as high as the fans whose general reaction is a one off blip and everything will be o.k. Compare this to last season if the same thing had happened we would have been calling for heads to roll from the Chairman downwards....Oh how times have changed....

CC City were in a rush to equalise, instead of taking their time like they did against Newvastle. Once we started to push forward we just left enormous gaps and you just can't do that with a team like Chelsea. No where near the finished article, but we are still a very good team.

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